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V 4 OREGON SEHTINEL. fc. -.. -- .. .... ' JACKSONVILLE:! Saturday, May 24, 1884. lepublican State Ticket, For Congress, BINGER HERMANN, of Douglas County. For Judge of Supreme Court, L. FLINN, of Linn County. For Presidential Elector!, D. P. THOMPSON, of Multnomah, WARREN TRUITT, of Polk, J. C. LEASURE, of Umatilla. District Ticket. For Circuit Judge, L. R. WEBSTER, of Jaekson. For Prosecuting Attorney, E. L. APPLEQATE, of Jaekon. -wef Vote for HarT. Oat man for Sheriff. He ii a Jackson county boy, born and raised here, without a stain, manly, ttraightforward and never whining round for a nomination. He ii a young, brave energetic farmer just the man for the place and no man in Jack son eounty has any better record for honesty and business capacity. Girs one of our own honorable young men a chance and let t he old fogies seep down. Our esteemed contemporary is quite lame. It is said that he kicked so hard when tho convention "sat down" on one of his partners in the script business that he broke his big toe. His profitable little "credit mobillier" is badly broken if his toe is not, for Harv. Oatman says: when he goes in to tho Sheriff's office, Mr. Nickell's script brokerage will bo very thin, and there will be plenty of warrants in market for tax payers. Don't let the tax payers forget it. A common Democratic argument is the necessity of a change of adminis tration in order to find out what the party in power has been doing. If the role is -a good one it should be applied in Jackson county, as tho Democrcay have long enjoyed power and if they kave aot been guilty of "crookedness" aa investigation would only show how clean they are. If there is anything crooked the poople should know it Then give us a new deal and leave no dirty cards in the pack. Sauce for the goose and &c When the "Times" announced on last Friday that Jacobs had recaptured ? w7r.mBflflSiE5 "S'bime. 12AS3& convention. The robber was not re-captured and never will be by Jacobs whose main business just now is trying to recapture the Sheriff's offite again which ho will find a harder jeb than the re-capture of Frank How rd. At all events Jacobs thinks bo as he don't take quite as much sleep as usual The Republican ticket for Josephine county will be fouud afthehead of our columns and most excellent selections have been mado for every office. Messrs Miller and Thornton will repre sent theircenstituencyin thelegislature with ability and both are men able to do something. For Clerk Frank M. Nickerson is again renominated and if the voters of that county understand their interests, and we believe they do, they will continue Mr. Nickerson in his present position. He has made one of the best clerks the county has ever had, always being at his post of duty ready snd willing to do any business in that line His past service is the best re commendation for his continuance in tnTBTfamrgsA.ye havo no dnuht. the Tpterswillso decide at the election be held one week from next Monday. Look at his record and give him your vote and you will have no cause to re gret it. The "Democratic Times" wants the name of any prominent Democrat in the 1st judicial district who won't support Cogswell for Judge. Here goes Mr. Nickell. W. J. Wimer of Waldo proclaims openly that not only himsolf but the whole Wimer family and all the Democratic voters thoy can honorably influence will be cast against Mr. Cogswell and for Judge Webster. Is the Wimer fami ly "prominent" enough Mr. Nickell? If you want the names of any more -Uemocrats who won't support Cogswell go and interview Mr. Donegan of this place and get a small sized flea in your ear. Go dewn into Jose phine county and ask nine out of ten Democrats whom you meet what their names are and then put them down forjudge Webster. Mr.Wimer's name is given without the least fear that the alleged editor of the "Times" will either bull doze him or change his wind, as Mr. W. is a prominent Demo crat forprineiple andthoalleged Demo cracy of the "Times" man is all for Nickoil. Mr. Wimer says ho wants an honest man on the bench, is satis. Sad with Webster and has not time .to .... .,.. n ... ;- - :::7:;T j?":' l,roD- y afraid of finding it Tertinent Questions. Tax payers will remember that county warrants wer unusually scarce this spring. Many persons desirous of turning in a little script for their taxes were unable to find any. What was the matter? Does Nickell, who chases every witness cr juror up and down the street, like a lunatic, at every term of court to gobble his prospective script, know how it is? Can Nickell explain how a man on about $2,000 capital can control 30,000 worth of script? Does Nickell know how bo much script gets into the sheriff's bag and so much money gets out if script is not paid in by the tax payers? Does Nickell know if the sheriff knows anything about the wonderfulscareityof script? DoesNick ell find the script business profitable with the present sheriff Is Charly afraid that his occupation of street- broker will be gone if Harv Oatman gets in? Is he afraid Harv wouldn't go into a little arrangement? Would Nickell like to see Jacobs re-elected? Why? Can Nickell tell the people what makes the script disappear! The people have a' right to an answer to all the above pertinent questions and as Nickell is well up in the script business he is the fittest one to enlighten them. Answer up Mr. Nickell. This is about the way the thing might be done: A sheriff collects the taxes and is allowed to receive half in county warrants, half in coin. A broker who is too sharp to be decent puts an amount of script, bought at a discount, into the sheriff's sack just for a little accomodation you know and I'll stand in for you, at par; takes the money buys up more script and the thriving business goes on while tax-payers, who should have the ad van tage of the discount, cannot find a piece for sale. Now do tax-payers guess why all the county warrants are frantically gobbled up by Mr. Nickell. if they can't let them go to Nickell's guessing school. It will be in order for Nickell to answer a lie to all these questions, more profitable, perhaps, than to tell the truth, but a thorough inves tigation might throw some light on a nice little game of "you tickle me and I'll tickle you" that is being played as slick as Nickell played the Court House question; that was when he cooked two kinds of pie in the same dish. The Nickell-Jacobs Combination got away with the Democratic county con vention, root and branch, except that the chief manngers' little scheme to nominate himself for county clerk got ninned in the bud. The combination ,aced Parker ;n nominat;on. ;ntend. ;ng to h;m a complimentary vote r.'ad. thereby secure the Bu -UlOU U Oktl kCtlk UiUlu Uf gl ker a solid vote and nominated the first ballot. It's hard to tell was the most surprised, tho defeated bops or the victorious Parker. Conster nation was plainly depicted en both countenances, but the new manager is a good democrat "for revenue only" and the Parker pill is sugar coated with the prospect that therank and file of the democracy will slowly fall into line in their Nickell plated collars. The harness did not fit well at first but" the immortal principles of Jefferson and Jaekson have been twisted end bent by so many rings and factions that the metal is very pliable and easily adjusts itself around the victorious element, and no aouui dui mat tne new manager will ride in a triumphal car by election day drawn by the entire party in the Niokell plated harness. Our neighbor harps a good deal on the 10,000 indebtedness of Josephine county and charges it to Republican extravagance. Let us look at the facts. In the first place it is not true that the debt amounted to that much when the charge was made, and since then 3,000 in warrants were cancelled and our advertising columns will tes- treasurer DeLamatter has 1,500 more on """u'"6 """. a. mnner iaot is that 3,000 of this indebtedness was contracted by the Commissioners in donating that amount toward the Cres cent City wagon road. Tbis was done Of" ft 1"! fl 1 fl Ft tltAmpnnln Jl S? it 0 on a petition signed by a majority of iuo re&iuenis ouosepmne Uounty, and as that county was Democratic by nearly 100 majority at that time it is reasonable to suppose that it was a Democratic measure and the county court had no alternative but grant the request. Another truth is that Jose phine county would be out of debt to day if the taxes due said county were paid up and the collector is no Republican either. These are facts and the records of the county will carry us out in every assertion made. All fair minded men must condemn non. jonn Myers for insincerity. He took occasion inhis speech here yester day to charge Republicans with being monopolists who always rode on rail road passes. The truth ig, and Mr. M. is too hnnest t deny it, he eanvassed Eastern Oregon on a railroad pass given by the O. R, & N. Co. The number of the pass is 103 and the fact can be sat isfactorily proved by applying to the manager of the company or any of the conductors along that line. Under such circumstantces we can hardly be lieve that Mr. Myers would vote to re duce railroad rates, as he must think them sufficiently low now. Mr Myers should say little about monopolies as he accepts tneir cneap favors while his op- """ " Pnent. Hermann, makes himself inde ' pendent by paying his way. Our Ticket. The Republican convention for the nomination of candidates for county officers met at the Court House last Monday, a good representation being present, when the following ticket was placed in the field; For Representative, J. M. McCall of Ashland and Theo. Cameron of Uniontown are the nominees. Both of these gentlemen are pioneers of South ern Oregon, beside being able, honest and well qualified to represent us as our law makers. To say anything more would be superfluous as they are both too well known to require any thing more than announce the fact that they are candidates for the office, and when tax payers compare them with their opponents they will exper ience no difficulty in making a choice. For County Judge the name of Harrison Kelly was placed before the convention and he was declared the nominee by acclamation. Mr. Kelly is also an old-time resident of the county, a practicing lawyer before our courts, a man of excellent judgment and firmness, and in every way quali fied to fill the office. If elected there ii no doubt but what the affairs of the county will be conducted in a business like and economical manner, and being a lawyer ho understands ever detail of the office and will not have to serve an apprenticeship after being elected. A vote for Kelly will be a vote for good government. For County Commissioners tho nom inets are Geo. W. Fordyce of Medford and E. K. Anderson of Eden. Both are heavy tax-payers in the county, and the latter has already filled the office two terms and made a good re cord. Both should be elected, and with CapL Kelly as Judge they would make an able county court H. B. Oatman of Phoenix is the nominee for Sheriff. Harv was raised in Jackson County, is Known by every one that Has resided here any length of time, and his honesty and qualifica tions to fill the office are not doubted by any. Ono thing sure, he is able to run the office alone, not requiring out side advice and assistance when a man comes in to pay his taxes, and he says that no trickery goes with him. give Harv your vote and thereby elect an honest and faithful officer. For County Clerk the name of G. S. Butler of Ashland is presented. Mr. Butler is an old-time resident of Ash land. -was' the head of the firm of.But- nominee Assessor and is in every way qualified to fill it. His father B. C. Goddard, was twice elected to fill this regponsi sible position in the Democratic county of Jackson and we believe the son will attend to it as faithfully when elected. M. G. Royal, nominee for School Superintendent is Principal of Ash land College and is one of the leading educators of tho State. Genl. E. L. Applegate has announced himself an independent candidate for the office of District Attorney and the Republican county convention also en dorsed him last Saturday. He will fill the office with credit to himself and the people of the district when elected. If the treasury of this county could bo more safe and the business better attended to than in the hands of "old pap Kahler," as he is familiarly called, we would like to know that individ ual's name. Mr Kahler is one of the pioneer farmers of this valley and many will remember him at the polls that do not belong to the political is a member. M. L. McCall of Ashlam nominee for Surveyor. He is a prac tical surveyor and can attend to the duties of the office with some ability. With the hopeless demoralization of the Democratic party oyer their nomi nations which is everywhere apparent there is an even chance for a clean Re publican victory at the eoming election. Kelley and Oatman's election may be considered as morally certain. Mr. Jacobs has shown himself to be so whol'v unfit for tho office that he can have no claims upon any party, and no reason to hope for his election. Kelley has a host of friends outside of his own party, and if elected, as we certainly believe he will be, will make one of bestjad&es the county ever had. If Republicans do their duty the whole ticket will be elected. If there is anything the people have a superfluity of, it is lawyers in the legislature. The chief business of a law yer is to make as much money as pos sible out of the troubles of his neigh bors and if he happens to get to the Legislature he makes it his business to twist the laws so that he will have to be well paid to untwist them again. Send mechanics, farmers, merchants, anybody, so they are common sense men, to represent the people and let lawyers, especially thoie of the tricky stripe, stay at home where they can do 1 no harm. a fr. vm B n ''iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiviiiiiiiiiiaiiiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiiiiBHaHaMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiaBiBvMuv-iaiiiia saiu m r iiiiiiii t i ti-"" -" u i n i-i nrnrpwiR tinun rm rrnr niiB" i .sssssssssssssssssssssssf i-nui TBfiuisuepuiy. J-nWHiior I mm UTTT B, , . . was that tByear ho was to use his Is He the Right Man? This is the question for every sensi ble voter to consider before voting for any candidate on the various county tickets. It is of far more importance to the general public that a public offi cer should be efficient and honest than that hs should believe in this or that politicalor religious doctrine, and only so far as political organizations are necessary to present candidates only so far should they be recognized. There fore if any party presents a man for election, known to be inefficient, peo ple are fools if they support him as against their own interests. We sub mit the question to tho people of Jack son county, is A. S. Jacobs, tho demr. cratic candidate for Sheriff, the proper person for the place? Within two weeks an important prisoner, a high way robber, wa delivered to him by the authorities of Shasta County, Cab, upon a requisition from the Governor of this State. Our efficient? bheriff started with the' prisoner for Jackson ville and,' although repeatedly warned bj his fellow passengers that the rob ber would get away from him, fell asleep' in the stage and let the fellow walk away from him only too easily. JNo doubt tne sheriB was enjoying pleasant dreams of his assured success in the coming convention, as he was aware it had been "put up" for him, but the people don't pay their money to sheriffs to fall asleep while on duty even if their overcoming dro wsiness is caused by the pleasant prospect of an other dip into the public treasury. They are paid for efficiency in arrest ing law breakers and vigilance in keep ingtfaem and, heretofore, Jackson county has, been fortunate in having men in the sheriff's place who were willing and able to do their duty. It may be said that- nature overcome the sheriff. A sheriff is expected to have more to do with the public business he has in hand than with nature; in fact the more nature he has the less able he is to deal with the criminal class, and if Mr. Jacobs is too feeble to keep awake with a most important prisoner in his charge he is totally unfit for the placJ, and ought to be ashamed to ask for it again. For the benefit of new comers in tbis county we will explain how Mr. A. S. Jacobs came to be sheriff of Jackson county. For some years he had done arduous duty as delegate from his precinct till, at last, he thought h(T ought to be rowarded by uence tor the nomination of GeortH Jackson of Table Rock, for the same office; Jacobs did neither. We don't say that he lied in either ease, but he simply broke his word and showed the bad faith that no man should show even in politics. As soon as he was warm in his office he failed to appoint Mr. Prim as he' was not likely to be only a willing tool, and as soon as prospects appeared to be getting a lit tle cool he commenced the hardest kind of work for Jacobs; entirely forget ting his friend Jackson. This kind of conduct is what makes politics disgrace ful, and if people aro to be rewarded for double dealing, breach of faith and violation of pledges it is apparent that politics will -always be worse instead of better. It is with this man's ineffi ciency we have to deal more than with the moral side of the question; but it is safe to say that & man who won't keep faith with his political associates won't keep faith with anyone, and only considers polities a game to be played for his own advantage, no matter who loses. We make these remarks in time so it cannot be. said that our ver- areer is sprung suddenly without giving a etiance to refute it and we will just forfeit an even hundred dollars if wo fail to prove all 'we have said by a number of the best oitizens in. Jackson ccunty. The "Timai" publishes two endorse ments of Mr. Cogswell this week one from Sacramento, Cal., signed Clay W. Taylor, the other from Ihe Klamath Agency signed Justice. It is too bad that Mr. C. has to go away down to California for endorsements and his friend from the Agency is evidently ashamed to sign his real name as he has not done so. When a man asks a place, that should be given to none but those with unsmirched records, he should procure his endorsements at home. Judge Webster is not obliged to go out of the State to establish a character and right here among his neighbors, irrespective of party, his "endorsements" will fall like snowflakes on election day and cover Mr. Cogs well out of sight. Hon. John Myers, Democratic can didate for Congress, warned the people here yesterday against sending lawyers to the Legislature. "Send farmers or business men" Raid he, "but if you know your interests keep lawyers and dootors at home." Thus far Mr. Myer's position is very sound. Good bye Neil. mil ti Ii r rrrrirnri the Man up a. Tree The man up a tree, so long absent, has returned; and "he reports finding Mr. Neil and Mr. Jacobs by the way side eating a Democratic lunch which had been procured and prepared be fore leaving home. They were out electioneering, and from what be gath ered of the conversation were for Noil and Jacobs. Neil was overheard to say, in a vexed and impatient tone, "Jacobs this is touch! What tho bologna? No; "the fight we've got on our hands." You see, Jacobs, we bit off more at that convention than we can chaw up and swallow, rarxer, you kuow, is a uose, and I'm not in the best odor myself with the party; fact is I'vo always been a kicker unless I was on the tick et; and you went round and raised the dickens fixen up the precincts and tell ing everybody that everybody else wanted to vindicate you and 1 guess in place of being vindicated you've kin died a fire I'm afraid 'II consumo us. I don't believe we can both put her out. What shall we do? "Dunno Neil. Guess we'll have to swap when we can and drop everybody and go for me and you solid. That's the idea exactly I'm glad you see it as I do. You know, Jacobs, we didn't intend to nominate Parker at all. I had to promise to vote for him to get his vote and influence on the balanco of the tieket, but we had a lot of putty heads who couldn't see through the thing, and the ring saw an opportunity to load us and went- for Parker straight and he was nominated on the first bal lot. We only intended to give him a complimentary vote and a small one at that, and that's the way the thing was done. We intended to nominate Al ford. Nickell said it was a dead shot, but he was bo furious over the nomi nation of the "old man" for treasurer that you couldn't depend on him to do anything right. I tell you, Jacobs, its tough! What the bologna? No; can't yeu understand anything? I mean the ticket of course. Why I don't believe you've hardly been awake since you let that prisoner go. And by the way some unreasonable people' say that a man win can't ba trusted with a pub lie robber after ho has been caught and hand cuffed by somebody ehe ain't fit for sheriff anyway. You niujt wake up Jacobs. Lots of people think you ought to pay for the hand cuffs anvway; and if I wore you I'd do that to stop the talk and prove to every body I was willing to do the fair thing ..!. n& Nickell you frtiiieu served the purpose and you got the nomination again, and this would be a capital thing to say junt before the election. We must post Charle. Nickell is a trump. He'll take holt of a thing with his teeth that some men wouldn't touch with a ten foot pole. I tell you we've all had to do some tall lying in this mat ter. Look at old man Waltou. The way we deceived him was outrageous. Enough of our delegates were pledged to him to give him the nomination but it wouldn't do. He was tho ring can didate and we had to slaughter him. The ring wanted to nominate Tommy Nichols for clerk but were afraid to let his name go lefore the convention. Of course we would have been com pelled tc sacrifice him as we did Wal ton. It's all right. He's a bed rocker anyway. Well we'd better move on. About all we can do is to go for Neil and Jacobs. And we'd better let that prisoner matter rest quiet as possible. They parsed on and the roan up a tree heard .Neil say "we ve got to bust that ring if we ruin the party. Jacobs snored out "I'm with you, but I'm awful sleepy. If Nickell and Jacobs succeed in foisting upon the people the ridiculous ;ated upon the democracy last Saturday, every honest democrat will be expected to wear a Nickell-plated collar. The mendacity and utter want of principle of this insolent faction, should its candidates be elected, will demoralize and disgust the better element in all parties. Voters at large, without regard to party, owo it to themselves to defeat and forever make odius the treaeherous and dirty schemes by which this would bo ring were en abled to place before the intelligent public such an insult in the shape of a ticket The sheriffs office for the past two years has been a family affair. The Jacobs' have been about as numer ous and annoying S3 the pests of Egypt; but there was always one gratifying fea ture about it you never had any trouble to tell the sheriff from the deputy be cause of bii peculiardisposition to sleep. Its perfectly right that a sheriff should sleep; but when he has a dangerous highwayman in his charge and has been repeatly warned to keep awake and look out for him, it's just not theproper thing to do to go to sleep and let him get away. Harv Oatman won't slop over and sleep on his post when he has a crimi nal in charge. He will be our next sheriff without a doubt. Osborne TSL&l&- in onry. riEcm&9sSHiBsXsvkv''lffistKLlLSF7 ''BSBBlVVvT'BBSRySSIBSBnBSBS9llB9uBSVSlBf Interesting To Farmers. Rock Poist, Jackson Co., Or., Jan. 26th, 1884. D. M. Osborne Jc Co. Portland, Oregon: Gemlemen. I bought ono of the Osborne No. 11 Twine-Binding Har vesters for tho harvest of 1SS3, and I take pleasure in recommending it to all farmers, for it give3 perfect satis faction in cutting and elevating the grain, and in binding it. It is the "boss." The more I use it the better I like it The expense of harvesting with the Osborne No. 11 is less than heading or reaping. Yours truly, G. W. Lance. AsnLAND, Or., Jan. 25, 1884. D. M. Osborne 5t Co. I bought one of your No. 8 Inde pendent self-rako Reapers this last harvest. It did the best of work I ever saw done with any reaper. I eut some green oats hay, which was the heaviest work I ever saw done with a reaper. I raked off bunches that would weigh a hundred pounds. Yours, truly, Bexnett Milliok. WAUUASTY. 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Surrender of notes or cash shall be deemed full satisfaction to party of tho second part for all dam age. nli run tit rr, Osborne's, agent for Jacksonville-, Medford, Rock Point and Grant's Pass, will sell this year, the 7 ft. Harvester and Twine Binder for $250 here. Tht Boss Machine will cut nicely when ever a plow can run; also, mowers for S90. Miller & Co., Ashland, aro aho agents for Osborne machines. F. Hudbaud. "Walter A. "Wood's Binders, Reapers & Mowers, McSherry Grain Drills and t-ecuers, Randall Pulverizing Har rows, Etc., Etc., ON 5.HORT NOTICE- patrons and friends toVall and see If Not Lower SLUICE FORKS, PICKSL Tarred Psi AND GUANITfP AND LAWS SPRINKLERS a2?o:e.Xj: UUTUSKY, and have facilities for furnishing esti STTT1.3rx OGMNT' debts and proposo to give our patrons ' J. W. 3IERKITT. (